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TIL the Asteroid Belt is the remains of a planet that never formed, and not the leftover debris of a planet that was destroyed.

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8XmL TIL the first rap single to reach #1 in the US was Ice Ice Baby in 1990. The first rap single to reach #1 in Canada was Rapper’s Delight in 1980
vP49D TIL that as early as 1802, Thomas Jefferson designed a cypher wheel to encrypt messages. It's unknown if he ever actually built or used one, but a similar tool was invented for the U.S. Army to use from 1920 until the start of WWII. Jefferson's designs were discovered shortly after.
ne1rP TIL billions of wooden pallets are circulating through the world (2 billion in the United States alone). Some 80 percent of all U.S. commerce is carried on pallets. They’re so widespread they account for more than 46 percent of total U.S. hardwood lumber production.
8a9OZ TIL George Washington “understood very clearly that everything he did as the first president of the United States would be watched by nations abroad and by people at home, and would set a precedent.” According to historians, Washington’s “finest moment” was leaving after two terms
N75YM TIL about Wonderland. A Boeing bomber facotory from WWII on the West coast that built a fake residential town on its roof to camouflage it from potential ememy airstrikes